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A Note From the Editor

Poetry
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY  The Dragon
VICTORIA CHANG  On Quitting
CATE MARVIN  Inside the Trembling Restaurant / My Black Address
SARAH MURPHY  Canto 30 / Canto 31 / Canto 32
JOANIE MACKOWSKI  Conversation Pieces
VALERIE WOHLFELD  The Night Orchard
PATRICK PHILLIPS  To Fortune
SUZANNE MATSONA  Nickel Sun
KEVIN PRUFER  Fallen from a Chariot
JENNIFER TONGE  Catafalque

Special Feature: The Poetry of Attilio Bertolucci
(translated and with an introduction by Nicholas Benson)
Poppies
Reading Waldemar Bonsels to G.
Butterflies
An augury, in leaving
The public gardens
Wind and rain
Portrait of a sick man
Leave me to bleed
Vermilion was
The hotel again
From Molly G.’s house
Thinking of Rome at the church of San Vitale in Parma

Fiction
NORMAN LOCK  Marco and Marian Take a Vacation / The Invisible Dutchman and His Dog
EDWARD HARDY  The Oort Cloud
ADAM LEVIN  Finch
PADGETT POWELL  Answers / Dusk / Matter of Time
ELIZABETH BURNETT  Thieves
PATRICIA HALLOFF  Tenants
DAVID GRIFFITH  Termite Colonies

Provocations
MIKHAIL N. EPSTEIN  On the Totalitarianism of Ideas (translated by Eve Adler)
JOHN BERTOLINI  Don Juan’s Past and the Future of the Species

Reports from American Places
THEODORE SHERARTS  Travel Diary: North Dakota

Revaluations
DAVID CASTRONOVO  Humbert’s America
CRAIG MCDANIEL  James Tate’s Secret CoPilot

Recollections
NATALIA GINZBURG  Fantasy Life (translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
JODI DAYNARD  Under the Electric Sun

Reader’s Notebook
MARK RUDMAN  Kathleen Raine’s Originality

Theater
MYLES WEBER  Two Times Two: Some Notes on Our Contemporary Theater

Rediscoveries
SAMUEL DILL  The Capture of Rome

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter